Legislative Updates
   
   
   
  Postal Financial Reform Bill Clears First Hurdle, 07-22-10  
   
 

Contact Your House Lawmaker to Urge Support for Postal Financial Reform, H.R. 5746, 07-19-10  
   
 

NAPS Repeats Call to Congress to Take Action on USPS Financial Reforms; Make Five-Day Delivery a Last Resort, NAPS Leaders Tell PRC, 06-29-10  
   


 
NAPS Alerts Congress to Possible Pay Abuse by USPS; Inspector General Says USPS Overcharged by $75 Billion; Lynch Proposal Would Provide FEHBP Drug Oversight, 01-29-10 
   

 
FERS Sick Leave Credit Becomes Law; NAPS to Congress:  Protect FEHBP in Health Care Bills; The 2010 Senate Races:  Who's up for Reelection?  10/29/09 
   
  Hill Negotiators Clear Way for FERS Sick Leave, 10/08/09    
   
  Congress Approves Temporary Financial Relief for USPS, 10/01/09   
   

Postal Relief Added to Government Stopgap Funding Bill; PRC Reviews Station/Branch Closures at Bronx Hearing, 09/24/09 
   

 
House Passes USPS Stopgap Relief, Resounding Vote of Support for HR 22, 09/15/09 
   

Senate Panel Clears Emergency Postal Relief; GAO Adds USPS to Its High-Risk List (Again); NAPS Questions Facility Closure Cost Savings, Service Impact, 07/31/09  
   
  House Panel Approves Financial Relief for USPS, 07-10-09  
   
  FERS Sick Leave Measure Rises from the Dead; Chaffetz Proposes Role for USPS in Conducting Census, 06-25-09 
   
House Panel Approves Relief for the Postal Service, 06-24-09  
   
  HR 22 Markup Could Miss the Mark; Cover Your Eyes: This  May be Messy, 06-23-09 
   

 
Senate Approves TSP Reforms, but Drops FERS Sick Leave Fix; House Panel Approves Voting by Mail in Federal Elections; Obama Picks McHugh for Army Post, 06-12-09 
   
 
House Panel Action on HR 22 Delayed; Congressional Interest in Five-Day Delivery Begins to Grow, 05-21-09 
   


 
Postal Worker Benefit Cuts in the Works?; When Will HR 22 Move?; House Panel to Examine Postal Operation Downsizing; USPS Summer Sale Could Generate Hot Revenue, 05-15-09 
   
  HR 22 Cosponsors Approach 300 Mark, 05/01/09   
   
USPS Agrees to Slow Down District Consolidations; House Approves FERS Sick Leave Credit, TSP Reforms, 04/02/09  
   
  NAPS Urges USPS to Cut Top Management Ranks; NAPS Leaders Prepare to Take the Hill, 03/27/09 
   
  USPS to Face Tough Questions from Congress;  NAPS Leaders Prepare to Take the Hill, 03/25/09 
   
 
A Case Where Congress Did Something Right...Well Almost; Cut Postal Services, Don't Hike Stamp Prices, Americans Says, 02-17-09 
   

Attempts to Secure USPS Pre-Funding Relief Continue; FERS Sick Leave Measure Dumps Use-It-Or-Lose-It Approach, 02-11-09  
   
  Five-Day Mail Delivery a Possibility, PMG Tells Congress, 01-29-09 
   


PMG Potter to Address Worsening USPS Finances Wednesday; The Postal Service is Hurting; Reducing the Strangle Hold of Prefunding Postal Serevice Retiree Health Care; 01-26-09 
   



The Future is Now, USPS Seeks to Realign Its Retiree Health Benefit Obligations; Leadership Changes in Postal Oversight Committee Possible; Looking for Tickets to the Inauguration?; Transition Quick Links, 11/13/08 
   

Election Results Could Mean Change for the Postal Service, 11/12/08  
   
 
NAPS and Postmaster Organizations Say "No" to Pay Concessions, 10/30/08 
   




Pay Concessions for Postal Supervisors and Postmasters?; FERS Sick Leave Bill Stalls in Senate; USPS to PRC: Don't Mess with the Universal Service Obligation and the Mailbox; Several Postal Gems Worth Reading ...; And Four Great Election Guides, 10/28/08
   




 
NAPS Celebrates Its Centennial at Successful Convention in Louisville; PMG Potter Warns of "Perfect Economic Storm": USPS May Lose $3 Billion by Year's End ; GAO Says Pay for Performance Should Emphasize Delivery Indicators, 09/18/08  
   
  NAPS National Convention, 09/09/08  
   
 


NAPS Challenges USPS Network Plan, Questions USPS Outsourcing; Preserve Universal Service and the Mailbox Monopoly, NAPS Tells the PRC; USPS Announces Greater Quarterly Loss Than Expected, 08/07/08 

   

 
House Approves FERS Sick Leave and Thrift Savings Reforms, 07/31/08 
   



 
USPS Announces Early Out Details for Some Supervisor Positions; House Hearing Will Examine USPS Network Realignment Plans; PRC Universal Service Study Could Moot Congressional Inquiry on 5-day Delivery, 07/22/08  
   



Postal Service Seeks Early Out Authority as Restructuring Plans Emerge; Congress Pursues Pared-Down Agenda; House Panel Approves Five-Day Delivery Study; NAPS to Urge Preservation of Universal Service, 07/07/08   
   


 
Five-Day Delivery? Maybe, but Not Now; Congress Could Face Up to the Entitlement Crunch Next Year; Nanci Langley Sworn in As PRC Commissioner, 06/17/08   
   



 
NAPS President Keating Calls for Aggressive Efforts to Increase USPS Revenues; Public Review of PRC Consultant's Report on Universal Service Essential, NAPS says; NAPS Meetings on the Hill Yield Congressional Co-Sponsorships, 05/09/08 
   




Postal Service is Disadvantaged Compared to its Competitors, the FTC Concludes; House Hearing on Social Security Offset Provisions Covers Familiar Ground; BMP Outsourcing on the Way?; USPS Makes It Official: Here Comes the IMB, 01/25/08  
   


 
NAPS Announces its 2008 Legislative Agenda; House Hearing on GPO and WEP to be Held on January 16; New Hampshire Legislative Panel Considers Do Not Mail Bill; USPS Updates Its Roadmap to the Future, January 11, 2008 
   





 
Congress Blocks 7 AMP Consolidations; Annual Revenue Forgone Payment to USPS Assured; Postal Service Issues Service Standards for Market Dominant Products; FERS Sick Leave Still in Drafting Mode; USPS Governors Approve Bank of America NSA, Based on Advances to Intelligent Mail Barcode; Mail Moves America Website Launched, December 20, 2007 
   


 
Congress Returns for the Final Push; NAPS Urges Action Toward Repeal of GPO and WEP; Lynch Introduces Postal Contracting Out Bill; House Leadership Announces 2008 Calendar, December 04, 2007  
   


New Postage Rates to Remain Within Inflation Next Year; FERS Sick Leave Bill Could Provide Relief; Not Ready for Prime Time? -- Part II; NAPS Legislative Conference Registration Now On-Line, November 16, 2007   
   


NAPS Calls for Better Postal Goal-Setting, Communication in Senate Testimony;  Postal Service Begins Exploration of Contracting Out Mail Distribution and Transportation, July 26, 2007
   



NAPS Endorses Harkin Bill to Ban Contracting Out of Delivery Services;  House Prepares to Avoid Its Obligation to Repay the Postal Service (Again): (NAPS and Others Protest);Triple-Play Postal Hearings Set for July;  Legislative Update on Bills Supported by NAPS, June 25, 2007 
   

 
NPA Incentives Contributed to Chicago Service Problems, NAPS and PMG Agree, June 1, 2007   
   


 

Supervisors Add Concerns Over Contracting Out of Delivery Service;  NAPS To FBI: Brief Congress on Anthrax Investigation; Dispelling the High-Five Rumors, April 10, 2007

   

 
Cosponsors Added to NAPS-Promoted Bills Immediately Following our LTS Activists' Visits to Capitol Hill, April 4, 2007 
   


 
NAPS LTS Delegates Make a Difference on Capitol Hill; We Want Your Congressional Visit Photos for The Postal Supervisor;  Are You In the LTS Picture?;  NAPS Rhode Island Branch 105 Says �No� to �Do Not Mail,� April 03, 2007 
   

 
Herseth Bill Would Halt USPS Involuntary Reassignment of Postal Employees with Veterans Status; Transformation and Postal Reform Push USPS Off the High-Risk List, February 10, 2007 
   

 
Postal Reform:  Signed, Sealed and Delivered!
December 21, 2006
 
 
   

 
House, Senate Pass Historic Postal Reform Legislation � �December 11, 2006  
   

 

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